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With the standoff in Tahrir Square continuing into the wee hours, the best estimates from the day's violence between anti-government protesters and pro-Mubarak forces have three people dead and more than 600 injured, reports AP. All of the violence took place as the military largely stood by and watched, and there's no sign things will be any different tomorrow.

Responding to accusations—and plenty of circumstantial evidence—that the Mubarak government had unleashed thugs on protesters, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately." He also kept up on the pressure on Mubarak to start his transition quickly, notes the New York Times. "Now means yesterday," he said. “There are reforms that need to be undertaken. There are opposition entities that need to be in the conversation.” Click for more.

A lot of Live gunfire now pointed at their legs and feet very high price being paid by the exhausted anti-government protesters http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/2007829161423657345.html

brawne

Feb 2, 2011 8:16 PM CST

Be happy that this isn't Iran with some guy in Paris waiting to make them all suckers. This is Chile. John Kerry who actually did the Martin Sheen thing in Vietnam before the same people--Ameriquest loved by Obama as much as Bush--shat on him, said who wants to tell someone they're the last guy to die for Vietnam? Sorta the same thing now. How many people die before his own military has to kill Mubarak? That is the role of memory in history.

Ucantusethatname

Feb 2, 2011 7:06 PM CST

Gotta love the aggressive leadership from Barry: "If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately." Stop shoulding on America.